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Anyway, move your date to about 500 years ago DRab, when science developed the scientific method and was hence forever separated from philosophy.
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<p>This is absurd. Science developed from philosophy. During what we now refer to as the "modern era," epistemologists (for the most part) relinquished their religious upbringings in order to search for what can be true, or known, in all possible worlds. Along with their philosophies came the notion of reasoning by induction. Both the power of induction and view of the world unchained by religious dogma allowed science to flourish. The continual interplay between science and philosophy continued well into the early twentieth century, with logical positivists and mathmaticians contributing greatly to the project of improving the standards by which a scientific induction can be judged reliable. </p>
<p>"Philosophy of science" is available at most top universities. I suggest you enroll in it for disabuse.</p>